On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:14:58PM -0400, jlewis@lewis.org mailed:
Running a routing protocol on a unix box doesn't mean you're using it as a router. Perhaps he just wants OSPF on a few servers so they can send their packets more efficiently. Consider a case where you have a few access servers and unix servers on the same switch and a router connecting that POP to your backbone. Having a routing protocol on those unix boxes means they can send packets directly to the appropriate access server (or the router) rather than everything to the router, just to have it spit the packets back out headed for an access server on that segment.
Pardon my ignorance here, but wont ICMP redirects take care of this situation already? -- Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg@redhat.com> * Red Hat, Inc. gpg 1024D/19893A19 A8DA 869A 037A C6B5 BF07 AB61 E406 414B 1989 3A19 pgp2 1024/625FA2C5 F5 F3 DC 2E 8E AF 26 B0 2C 31 78 C2 6C FB 02 77 pgp5 1024/0x46E7A8A2 46EB 61B1 71BD 2960 723C 38B6 21E4 23CC 46E7 A8A2